@inbook{81f9ee4b49ac4fbd8cc5d96a297f8b86,
title = "Cross-linguistic parallels and contrasts in a contact language perfect construction",
abstract = "This paper is about semantically and pragmatically comparable perfect constructions in the contact languages Sri Lankan Malay (SLM) and Sri Lankan Portuguese (SLP). The goal of the paper is to show that non-finite participles based on a conjunctive participle model in the Sri Lankan linguistic area convey perfect meaning and also combine with a semantically empty auxiliary to form a periphrastic perfect construction in main clauses. Irrespective of the similarities, the separability of the auxiliary and the negation facts associated with the SLM construction are suggestive of biclausal status, whereas the SLP construction is simply agglutinative and monoclausal. ",
keywords = "Biclausality, Conjunctive participle, Contact languages, Event focus, Linguistic areas, Morphosyntactic convergence, Periphrastic perfect, Sri Lankan Malay, Sri Lankan Portuguese",
author = "Peter Slomanson",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 John Benjamins Publishing Company.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1075/slcs.217.05slo",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789027208606 ",
series = "Studies in Language Companion Series",
publisher = "John Benjamins",
pages = "117--136",
editor = "Eide, \{Kristin Melum\} and Marc Fryd",
booktitle = "The Perfect Volume",
}